[QUOTE="worlock77"][QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]
No, imagine living in a state like the size of mabey Rhode Island (mabey a little bigger) and being surronded by neighboring countries that don't acknowledge your existence and hate you and want you gone off the face of the map! Now you are a good country with good values and you believe in Democracy and freedom, but your neighbors sure don't, they are radical dictator regimes and they oppress other religions, ethnic groups, and women and they want to kill you. And keep in mind that they are surronding you.
That is the postition Israel is in, Israel is the victim. Supporting Israel means supporting freedom and democracy, in the arab countries woem for instance are beat to death and are oppressed, but not in Israel. Women have all the rights of men, hell even Israel let's gays serve in their military, that would never happen in an arab country, I think you know what they would do to them. As you can see Israel needs help, it is the shining becaon of democracy in the middle east.
Oh and Iran obtaining a nuke would be bad, very VERY bad! For everyone, not just Israel. It would be like North Korea getting a nuke, everyone is in danger!
themajormayor
Last time Israel was engaged by all those countries Israel mopped the floor with them (and attacked a US vessel unprovoked and damn near got the US apoligizing for it to boot). Israel is now considerably strong than then. I'm not sure the same can be said for its neighbors. So no, I'm not really convinced that Israel needs help.
You sure? Last time Israel was engaged with all of them was in 73 and while Israel did won in the end it was not really "mopping the floor". In the beginning Israel was so desperate they even prepared the nukes I've heard. Also the USS liberty incident was in 67 not 73 and it was a mistake from Israel's side and they paid compensation for the lost lives and the ship. Why it's important for you to make Israel look bad? In any case Israel's neighbors has become significantly stronger. You think they still use old MIG's? Even groups like Hezbollah has modern equipment. Saudi Arabia has a top notch army with modern equipment from USA and they spend a big part of their budget on their army. On the same level as Israel. Difference is Saudi has a much bigger army. And you realize the rest yourself.- Fair enough, I kinda forgot about the Yom Kippur War. Although that war was only two nations (with verbal support from a couple and supply support from some others) against Israel, lasted a couple weeks and still resulted in Egypt and Syria sustaining much heavier losses than Israel.
- As far as the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, Israel claims it was a mistake, yet many, including several who within the US government, military, and even some who were onboard the Liberty, believe that the ship was clearly identified yet the attack continued.
- Let me guess....anything less that absolute unwavering support of Israel is trying to "make Israel look bad"? I guess I should thank you for not calling me an anti-semite at least.
- Most of Israel's neighbors can even deal with their own sh*t these days. And Jordan is on peaceful terms with Israel. Saudi Arabia? A non-issue. Saudi Arabia isn't going to do anything to Israel now and doesn't, to my knowledge, threaten to. The Saudi's depend too much on friendly relations with western countries keeping their ruiling family wealthy from oil profits.
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